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Jamestown
Jamestown was the first official colony in the new world. It is was founded in1607 in Virginia. -
House Of Burgesses
Governor George Yeardley noticed that Virginia needed a Legislative branch and the assembly would meet on July 16 1619. -
Start Of Slavery
Slavery didnt start right off the bat. This was the time when Africans Americans arrived in Jamestown. -
Mayflower Compact
It was the first framework that was written in the new world. It was signed by 41 colonist on the english ship. -
French And Indian War
The war provided Great Brittan with a bunch of land. Also not paying for war expences in the long run led to the revolutionary war. -
Treaty Of Paris 1763
It was signed by the Great Britain, France and Spain, with Portugal in agreement, It was signed after Britains victory over France and Spain. -
Proclamation Of 1763
The Proclamation of 1763 was being beneficial to the Native American Indians and Great Britain but as troubling to the colonists. -
Stamp Act
The new tax was imposed on allcolonists and made them pay a tax on every piece of printed paper they used. Ship's papers, legal documents,newspapers, and even playing cards were taxed. -
Boston Massacre
Colonists and British soldiers inBoston competed over jobs. British troops fired into the mob. As a result 5 colonists died. -
Boston Tea Party
England put restrictions on tea. Colonists boarded tea ships and threw all of the tea into the Boston harbor. -
First Continental Congress
This was the first time that all 13 colonies met except georgia. They met in Philidelphia. -
Lexington And Concord
British trrop attacked a colonial weapons stockpile. This was when Minutemen were assembled. This was the first spark of the war. -
Second Continental Congress
This was when we actually put soldiers together and united. -
Declaration Of Independence
Written byThomas Jefferson. Issued by the Continental Congress. The colonies officially seperated from England. -
Articles Of Confederation
It served the 13 colonies as a confederation and was the first constitution. -
Critical Period
This was when the country was slowly but surely falling apart. When the war was going on people and farmers lost there farms and land. -
Yorktown
The french navy blocked the exits of the Chesepeak Bay. We surrounded Cornwallis and he surrendered -
The Treaty Of Paris
England Ackowledged American Independence. The boundaries where the Atlantic Ocean to the Mississippi River. -
Land Ordinance 1785
Congress did not have the power to raise revenue by direct taxation of the inhabitants of the United States. -
Annapolis Convention
they discussed the twelve delegates from five states–New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, Delaware, and Virginia gathered to discuss and developments about trade barriers. -
Shays Rebellion
Shays Rebellion was an armed forcethat took place in Massachusetts during 1786 and 1787, -
Adams Presidency
He was the socond president of the united states and was the first vice president of the united states. -
Constitutional Convention
Met in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, to address problems in governing the United States of America, which had been under the Articles of Confederation. -
Northwest Ordinance 1787
The land west of the Appalachian Mountains, north of the Ohio River and east of the Mississippi River was to be divided into ten separate states -
The Great Compromise
This created 2 houses the senate and the house of representatives. Now they had balanced power between large and small states. -
3/5ths Compromise
Skaves counted as 3/5ths of a person when determining a states representation in the house of representatives. Placated southern states. -
Washingtons Presidency
He was the first president of the united states and he was the comander and cheif of the continental army during the revolutionary war. -
Judiciary Act of 1789
This is when they established the first federal court. -
Bill Of Rights Signed
This had the first 10 ammendments in it. -
Cotton Gin
Eli Whitney invented this. This mechine made it much easier for cotton farmers. On top of that we had to have much more slaves on the farms and feilds to pull the cotton and wrk on the feilds and preparing it for the next round. -
Jeffersons Presidency
He was the third president of the united states. He was the famous author of Declaration Of Independence and he was the american founding father. -
Marbury vs. Madison
Courts formed the basis for the exercise of judicial review in the United States -
Louisiana Purchase
Thomas Jefferson purchased 828,000 square miles of land west of the Mississippi River for $15 million. -
War of 1812
The War of 1812 was a military conflict, lasting for almost 3 years between the United States of America and the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, its North American colonies -
McCulloch vs. Maryland
landmark decision by the supreme courts of the united states. -
Missouri Compromise
Congress passed a bill granting Missouri as a slave state under the condition that slavery was to be prohibited in the rest of the Louisiana Purchase north of the 36th parallel, which runs along the southern border of Missouri. -
Monroe Doctrine
The European powers, were obligated to listen the Western Hemisphere as the United States sphere of interest. -
Gibbons vs. Ogden
held that the power to regulate interstate commerce, granted to Congress